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Like no other time since World War II, foreign academics and students are being forcibly displaced due to violence and political persecution. Following are stories of one scholar —an Albanian writer living in Greece, Gazmend Kapllani, who was also a Radcliffe fellow in 2013. The stories demonstrate the growing threats to dissident intellectuals around the world.

Leaders from local organizations—all members of Community Works, a cooperative of 31 local agencies working for social justice—came together to reflect on a "bad year for women" and to talk about what the future might hold. More

Wonder Woman crashed through Harvard's Johnston Gate, escaped the chains of patriarchy, and soared as a feminist icon in the early 20th century, argued Jill Lepore in a lecture on the superheroine's history.

At Radcliffe, Melissa Harris-Perry on elections: a democracy is valuable in a number of ways, but "the fundamental value is about being a loser." If, in a democracy, a group expects to lose as often as it wins—and, in the case of some marginalized groups, far more often—they can "lose without fearing that the winners take all."

Melissa Harris-Perry, host of the weekend MSNBC news show and a political science professor at Wake Forest University, discussed disenfranchised American voters, the role of minority groups in a democracy, and her life as a public intellectual with nearly 400 attendees crowded into the Radcliffe Institute's Knafel Center.

Commentator Melissa Harris-Perry, the host of the weekend news and political talk show that bears her name on MSNBC, offered her view on the "New American Politics" in the 2014 Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture.